Connecticut western news., 1887-04-20
TWO TO ONE!
NEW MILFORD AND TWISTED
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 FOLD LITCHFIELD HILL" FINAL ARGUM ENTS B E F 0 R E THE COMMITTEE. 1ynde Harrison Pleads Sentimentally and Pathetically and Lawyer Roraback
 Presents the Facts.
RORABACK'S SPEECH ENTIRE.

The Litchfeld County matter-the re- moval of the county seat from the inaccess- ible hilltop of the county to the populous and thriving valleys which accommodate themselves especially to the business cen ters of Winsted and New Milford--has been of absorbing interest. which culminated on Tuesday afternoon at the final hearing be- fore the Committee in the Representatives Hall. MT. Lynde Harrison, the well known attorney before the legislature for many years, made the opening speech pleading for Litchfeld Hili upon sen timental and pathetic grounds, rather than resting his case upon any claim which touched the marrow of the subject in controversy. All matters referring to public necessities, the convenience and ac- commodation of the people, the changes of customs by the touch of advancing civiliza- tion, and the demands of rising popula- tion and its new centers, were, If mentioned at all, treated with weak and trivial brevity and in spirit of pettifogging assurance characteristic of man who was so con- scious of the instability of his cause, that even in his best mood he could not conceal the fact that his own convictions were against him. MT. Harrison is never at loss to say something, but his mind is not logical, and on this occasion he labor cd under painful difficulties. When he came to speak of Litchfeld Hill of half century ago, when railroads were not known and the high tops of earth were the retiring spots of the age, he sought the aid of his eloquence; and when he referred to it as the birthplace of famous en,-re- calling what Stephen A. Douglas once said of Vermont" that it was good place to he born in provided man emigrated when he was very young"-he forced his rhetoric fo ho and roo6o hiyv,oo1f bo Hamlet of the play, giving answer to the Queen, his mother. It was q speech pos .sessing neither argument, force, nor logic.
 The reply of MT. A. T. Roraback-who closed the discussion-was of different character; solid arraignment of facts in behalf of Winsted and New Milford; a weighty deduction of argument from all the evidence, a clear exposition of past necessities and present demands; a forcible application of the specific typographical features of the case; and finally running through all the points of his address were the pungent, choice extracts from Governor Andrewss speech at Woodstock, wherein the learned chief magistrate of the State made the solid argument ill 1879 which should justify the legislature of to-day in removing the county seat from Litchfield Hill to New Milford and Winsted, with the song of Goldsmith mellowing the at mosphere and touching the hearts of the people of the whole of Litchfield county This speech of MT. Roraback is fully ab stracted as follows:
 Mr. CAairman and Gentlemen of the Com
 mittee:
 desire to take the text of my remarks from an address delivered by distinguished citizen of this State, one of it's honoret governors, and now an eminent jurist, who lives upon Litchfield Hill. I read from al address delivered on the 4th of July, 1879 at Woodstock, by his excellency, Charle B. Andrews, then the governor of the Stat of Connecticut. He describes Litchfielt Hill, at that time, as follows:
 Let me call attention to one Connect cut village of the kind of which we ar talking. It is situated almost on the crowl of the highest land in one of our mountail counties. It's broad streets are famed an, shaded by tall and graceful elms, plante, while yet Connecticut was colony o George III. A hundred years ago it wa among the most prominent and inhuenti towns in the whole State, and this position it maintained for many years and until comparatively recent period. Within tn century there has resided in this villag one signer of the Declaration of Independ h once, one member of the cabinet of Pres dent John Adams, three United States Ser ators, five members of Congress, one judg of the United States Circuit Court, tw chief justices of the Supreme Court of thi State, one judge of the Superior Court ( this State, three governors of the State, on law reporter, one historian of the State, b, sides State Senators and others of Jesse consequence.
 To-day this beautiful and romantic ylac soith this history, unparalleled in the anna Of the country and titled and made delightfl 5y aN the charms of nature, is hardly mo
 Nan the deserted Auburn aohose nsesori
 Goldsmith. sung. 1t is renaoued from t present hnes of tracel. It IS lost, in numbers. It's more fortunate 7setg